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Anthropic has been warning about AI-enabled cyberattacks at least since 2022, with @logangraham at the forefront of that work. Back then, no VC was taking it seriously. The paradox is that risks only feel real once they’re legible, but waiting for incidents is too late. Anthropic also built sycophancy evals (@EthanJPerez et al.) a couple years before real-world incidents with ChatGPT made the risks of models excessively agreeing with users legible at scale. The lesson is to take early evidence of AI risks seriously before harm at scale makes them impossible to ignore.
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If you're hearing about the lack of app support on the Duo and wagging your finger at the makers of your favorite app…
+ Duo is a complicated device—many poses & core UI changes.
+ Developers had 3 weeks before press units went out
+ Likely <1% were able to test on real devices
+ Expect many app updates to land before you get your device
+ Long term, it'll take time for new patterns to emerge
Lastly, app makers don't get any of the $2K+ you paid for this device and most won't make any additional $ off this work. So instead of wagging your finger, consider a hug.
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Ladies and gentleman, I present for your enjoyment,
The right wing saboteur, Neera Tanden.
support in bio.
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Another one of your subculture's obnoxious habits is phrasing everything as ambiguously serious so if anyone ever calls you out on being assholes you claim you're joking and call them an idiot. In person too, I've noticed.
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Opinions from inside the tech bubble are so funny. 'Elizabeth Holmes is a sociopath and narcissist who will do anything, even kill people, to raise the valuation of her company. I don't see how this is interesting, everyone is like that.'
nathan fielder has an almost incomprehensible film making talent and he’s wasting it on some quite boring subject matter. there is nothing very interesting about elizabeth holmes or billy evans
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Yeah @hark_labs is in a completely different league than these other “assistants” lol
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all I want for Christmas is a feature in uber that filters out tesla drivers specifically in LA and NY 🤢🤮
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The thing that may be hard to understand about Silicon Valley, and especially engineering-driven culture, is that a lot of things are created because somebody wanted to see if they could.
There was no vision, no worldview, no problem being solved. On average, the result is unapplied or misapplied novelty, with the occasional useful innovation.
What's interesting is that as software gets easier to build, the power to build spreads beyond established institutions, the ones with checks and balances and market forces to filter out random creation. I think we're going to see a future with a lot more unruly software: some of it controversial, thoughtless, or dangerous, and some of it genuinely special, curious, and creative.
But we'll probably overestimate the impact of any individual thing. Distribution is harder than ever, and even what does get distributed well will have plenty of determined peers.
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The american dynamism/defend the west fund being the one to introduce the social credit system is a beautiful thing
Excited to introduce @Cosign: the curated professional network for the startup community: cosign.co
Our goal is to create the following:
- A comprehensive startup directory of investors, companies, and operators, including what they worked on and who they worked on it with.
- Cosign graph: Who shaped your career? Who were you actually in the trenches with? Who would work with you again? Who thinks you’re someone to watch?
- Durable reputation: Great endorsements happen every day on X and disappear into the feed. Cosign attaches those signals permanently to people and companies.
- Discovery: Who are the best fintech angels? Which AI companies should I watch? Who are the best designers?
- Intent network: Privately signal “I’d invest in them,” “I’d hire them,” “I’d work with them,” or eventually even “I’d acquire this company.” Match people when interest exists on both sides.
Imagine if Wikipedia, LinkedIn, and OG AngelList had a baby. Though Cosign is a community, not a business.
In order to join, you need to be cosigned. Or you can apply directly.
David Booth and I started this idea 7 years ago but didn’t have the firepower to make it work. Now we do.
No one has really touched LinkedIn in 20 years. Excited to take a swing.
cosign.co
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Fixing "Idea slop"
Everyone knows how AI overuses certain words/grammar, but it also overuses the same ideas.
E.g. If you ask GPT 5.6 sol the same question 100 times "write a news article about a new startup that makes LLMs that are better at writing" then 89% of articles say that the models will be an assistant/collaborator instead of replacing writers. 93% mention how professional writers supply training feedback.
These are reasonable things for an article to talk about, but it's weird that so many articles focused on those themes instead of others. E.g. none of the articles mentioned open source or new algorithmic developments
Even the details were the same, in 68% of articles the startup raised exactly $18M, and in 97% of articles Sol used the same name for the founder, "Maya Chen"
Deft is launching a new experimental "Brainstorm" model that is focused on solving idea slop. You'll get a much wider variety of ideas when you use it for writing.
We made a research blog that goes into more details about quantifying conceptual overlap, and showing that Deft has a wider variety of outputs than other models. See below for links to the blog and model
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Introducing ACTx486, a research demo of a new interactive medium.
What if you could talk to any video and ask anything?
Our system took an existing podcast and turned it into something that listens, responds, and adapts.
Research by @jakubzeg:
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